Hattori Heiji didn't know what Shiraishi was thinking. Seeing Shiraishi's hesitation, he thought he was worried that he would suddenly fall asleep while climbing and fall to his death, so he decisively pushed him aside.
He didn't have any scruples. He stuffed the flashlight into his pocket, grabbed the ladder and climbed up.
Shiraishi glanced at the two people's retreating figures, thought about the height of the tower, and then thought about what if Hattori Heiji was knocked down by Nishikawa Susumi, or if he was pushed off the tower by Nishikawa Susumi who was furious after his dream was shattered...
How much credibility will this cost?
Then I thought about it, two people had already climbed over it. Even if there were cobwebs, they couldn't catch me. At most, I could wash my hands later...
Shiraishi took a deep breath of the fresh air outside, then got in and climbed up.
The height of the ladder is twenty to thirty meters, leading directly to the top spire of the castle.
When you climb to the end, you can see an old wooden door.
Nishikawa Suimei was ecstatic.
This high and hidden place looks like it hides something good.
She opened the door, ran into the small room in the tower, turned on the flashlight and looked around.
However, the room was empty, with nothing that looked like treasure at all.
Xichuan Suimei's eyes finally stopped on the opposite wall.
There is a half-person-high "cabinet door" with exquisite decoration. There is also a bronze metal plate hanging on it. There are some words engraved on the plate, but there are too many rust stains, which obscures part of the information.
Xikawa Suimei glanced at it and saw the keyword "give" above, and she immediately understood.
——The treasure must be in this cabinet!
She rushed over with a happy face and opened the cabinet door.
However, there is nothing in the "cabinet".
Because this is not a cabinet at all, but a window.
It was pitch black outside the window, extremely gloomy, and it was raining heavily. The scenery was quite melancholy.
Nishikawa Suimei was stunned.
After several seconds, she gradually came back to her senses, and then she became furious - she had been deceived, this was not a place where the treasure was hidden at all!
Ecstasy turned to rage.
At this moment, Hattori Heiji climbed to the top of the passage and stuck his head out from the door.
He just heard Nishikawa Suimei's angry howl, and before he could see the scene in the room clearly, someone suddenly grabbed him by the collar and pulled him up.
Xi Chuan Suimei roared: "Liar! Where is my treasure??"
"Who lied to you..." Hattori Heiji was confused.
After he stood firm, he pulled Nishikawa Suimi's hand away from his collar: "Since you have been coveting the treasure, you must have memorized the layout of the chess pieces in the yard.
"The positions of chessmen are usually black at the top and white at the bottom, arranged in English letters A-H and numbers 1-8. From the position of the knight, looking at the white chess in numerical order, you can interpret EGG·HEAD——
'An intellectual who loves to reason'.
"When the gardener introduced the portrait of the old lady to us, didn't he also say that when the wife of this family was alive, she often said that the old lady was a 'reasonable intellectual', so this code actually refers to himself.
"The arrangement of the black chess pieces is a 'G' rotated ninety degrees clockwise, implying that rotating the portrait to the left will reveal the entrance to the treasure. So far, everything here is very consistent with the old lady.
The secret code left behind. Apart from this, can you think of any other place that satisfies these two conditions at the same time?"
"..." Xikawa Suimei didn't really understand it, but she felt that what he said made sense.
Especially the last sentence.
——She collected all the old lady's belongings that she could find, trying to find any clues from them, but she never succeeded.
After careful calculation, the portrait below really meets the requirements.
"Then... where is my treasure?" Xichuan Suimei was confused.
She looked at the bricks on the surrounding walls and suddenly wondered, could there actually be gold bricks hidden here?
…
As soon as Shiraishi climbed to the door, he heard a tinkling sound above his head.
He poked his head out in confusion and saw that Nishikawa Suimei was hitting the brick wall next to her with random stones for some unknown reason.
Hattori Heiji stood not far from her, also looking confused.
——This small room is very empty, there is almost nothing, and the treasure seems to have been taken away.
But Nishikawa Suimi's appearance is really bad, it's not like she hid the treasure in advance and then acted here.
Hattori Heiji looked around and his eyes fell on the open window.
He stuck his head out by the window and looked around, finding that the surrounding areas were just ordinary eaves, with no treasure boxes hanging there.
So he went back and closed the window to prevent the rain from coming in. Although there were no treasures here, there were a few old books in the corner. Too much rain would easily damage the books.
While Hattori Heiji closed the window, he turned around to check the books.
If you are an "intellectual", you may write your life experience into a book and leave it as a treasure to future generations.
But before that, he saw Shiraishi walking into the house and passing him.
Hattori Heiji was startled, and immediately retracted his attention from the book, and went back to observe what Shiraishi was doing - after forming a temporary team with Shiraishi for a while, Hattori Heiji found that he had begun to get used to his teammate's unusual observation ability.
Shiraishi stopped in front of the window that had just been closed by Hattori Heiji.
Hattori Heiji didn't really pay much attention to the window before. He subconsciously felt that since Nishikawa Susumi had just come back from the window and there was no rain on the ground by the window, it meant that she opened the window herself - if there was really something wrong with the window,
Nishikawa Suimei must have discovered it long ago.
So at that time, he just opened the window and turned away.
Now seeing Shiraishi heading straight to the window, Hattori Heiji realized that he might have missed another clue.
He walked to the window, looked over the white stone, and was slightly startled.
——This window, compared with this too simple room, looks very delicate. Although it is also dark, if you look closely, you can see the gilded corners on the edge, like a gift that has not been opened for a long time.
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In addition, there was a small sign nailed to the wooden window, which seemed to have written something.
Seeing Shiraishi standing still, Hattori Heiji couldn't wait any longer.
He took out his handkerchief and stepped forward to wipe off the excess rust spots.
The recessed font gradually becomes legible:
[I want to give the scenery from the top of this castle to the first person to arrive here?]
"..." Hattori Heiji read the words above, then looked at the cute symbol at the end, and twitched his forehead twice.
Judging from the age of the sign, it does seem to be used to indicate treasure.
But if the "treasure" is really just this...
Hattori Heiji glanced at Nishikawa Susumi, who was still banging bricks one by one in an attempt to find wealth, with a rather pitiful look in his eyes.
...but it feels a little bit relieved in a subtle way.